Artist Statement

I am an artist whose current practice is heavily engaged with electronic media, language, programming and networked communication. I am particularly interested in the use of networks (both real and virtual) toward creating hybrid interactive installation pieces. Born and raised in the UK, I am now living and working in Sydney, Australia.

Whilst developing an online studio of work at devoid, together with commercial projects and interactive design and programming for arts organisations, I work extensively with Furtherfield, an London/net based artists collective, using the internet and networked technology as a focal point for creative discourse, events and production. Projects including Visitors Studio and FurtherStudio (an online artists residency programming) and 'Skin/Strip Online' (a collaboration between Furtherfield and Completely Naked, commissioned by BBC Shooting Live Artists 2003).

I also teach and held the position of Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at Bath Spa University (Graphic & Screen Design) from 2000 to 2008.

Exhibitions

Entrance
Exhibited at Intimate, Loop Space, Newcastle, NSW
Manipulated live video camera feed
(February 2009)

Exquisite Copse
On Display at Pine Street Gallery, Sydney and The Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library, Sydney in the show Without Boundaries - an exhibition of artists' books.
(November-December 2008)

Month of Sundays
Series of live online A/V Performances by international artists using Visitors Studio. Screened at the Watershed (Bristol), The Point CDC Theatre (New York) and E:vent (London). (June 2006)
Archive of performance by Neil Jenkins and Roger Mills

Tag Navigator
An alternative interface to the Soundtoys web site, commisioned by Soundtoys, funded by Arts Council England and supported by Watershed.
(April 2006)

Exquisite Copse
A play on the surrealist game, Exquisite Corpse, Exquisite Copse visually rewrites existing works of literature into a forest of word trees, based on seed words entered by visitors. Each branch grows with words that might follow in the original text. Commissioned for Net:Reality - A UK touring exhibition of installed net art.
(July 2005, toured UK in 2005/2006, various international exhibitions 2007/2008)

where r u ?
Group event, performance + net project with ...here nor there...
Internet + Bristol, UK (2003)

T-deus
Online group exhibition
Internet (2003)

Serendipity
solo net project, software for psychogeographers
Internet (2003)

spirograp[d]h
visual module for PANSE (Public Access Network Sound Engine) by Pall Thayer
Internet (2003)

Guernica [cover up]
Image/ASCII collage
Internet & various print publications (2003)

wartime [calculated $817,800,000,000]
for the >wartime< project
Online group exhibition
Internet + various international venues (2003)

Kniga [za misel] - Book [for thought]
Installation and Internet
Kibla Multimedia Center, Maribor, Slovenia (2003)

Bin
for The Cyber-Kitchen
Online group exhibition
Internet (2002)

orbital
generative net project created in collaboration with Mac Dunlop
Internet (2002)

Trumpet and Traffic
video project with musician Roger Mills
Video (2002)

Electric December
online group project
Watershed, Bristol, UK
Internet (2002)

Walls Have Ears
live a/v performance with musician Roger Mills
various venues, UK (2002)

12-12
group exhibition and live performance broadcast
Internet + University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK (2001)

...here nor there... at Medi@terra 2000
new media festival & exhibition
Internet + Athens, Greece (2000)

Reface Deface
solo exhibition and installation
The Old Gaol, Bristol, UK (1998)

Ajar
group exhibition
Konikus Gallery, Bristol, UK (1996)

Observation
group performance and installation with No Room For Manoeuvre
Prema Arts Centre, Gloucestershire, UK (1996)

Invisible and Indivisible
installation and artist book created in collaboration with writer Alyson Hallett
Bristol, UK (1996)

Words & Pictures
Artists multiples box set publication (Issue 4)
(1995)

All over the shop
group exhibition
Clifton Arcade, Bristol, UK (1995)

Collective Projects

Visitors Studio
Live multi user A/V mixing environment
www.visitorsstudio.org

Furthernoise.org
Technical support and some programming
www.furthernoise.org

FurtherStudio
virtual artist in residence environment with furtherfield.org
www.furtherstudio.org

Skin/Strip Online
interactive online installation with Furhterfield.org and Completely Naked
www.skinstrip.net (2003)

Informer
Part of Mute-Dialogue a multimedia projected initiated by Yasser Rashid
www.mute-dialogue.com (2002)

herenorthere.org
International Artists Collaboration
www.herenorthere.org (1999-2003)

Commissions & Residencies

Web artist in residence for Year of the Artist
South West Arts, UK (2000)

Web artist for DA2 (Digital Arts Development Agency)
UK (1997)

Curation

12-12
A live 12 hour show and webcast, featuring national and international performers, sonic and video artists. (2001)

Databases

Rhizome.org : ArtBase

Furtherfield.org : Various Artworks

Net_Working : www.dshed.net/networking/

2003 Net Art Links : http://netzwissenschaft.de/kuenst.htm

Publications

The Orbital Poetry Engine
LEONARDO (Vol. 36, No. 4)
MIT Press (2003)

The Art of War
Image Feature
Decode Magazine (Issue 7)
UK (2003)

Poems That Go (Spring/Summer 2003)
Internet
www.poemsthatgo.com

Low-Fi guest list
'click here to skip intro'
Internet
www.low-fi.org.uk (2002)

365 (Year of the Artist in the South West)
CD ROM to accompany published book
UK (2001)

Critical Reviews

low-fi list
referencing other spaces (Helen Sloan)
www.low-fi.org.uk (2003)

Shaken Identity
Decode Magazine (Issue 5)
UK (2002)

The Four Dimensional Monument
Fuse Magazine (Volume 25, Number 4)
Canada (2002)

Review of orbital
Neural
www.neural.it (2002)